A battle played out in the J/111 fleet between Brad Kimmel and Steve Young’s Diablo and Kevin and Seth Young’s Black Seal, and while the two teams were mere boatlengths apart for the first two legs of the day’s first race, a mechanical failure with a forestay fitting on Black Seal on the third leg had them scrambling to keep the mast upright. They were able to reconnect the forestay and finish the race, but…

The Warsash Sailing Club (UK) concluded the Warsash Spring Championship. A total of nine races were sailed for the tenacious sailors taking on the ever-changing Solent. The J/111s prevailed again in the IRC 1 Division, with Chris Jones & Louise Makin’s JOURNEYMAKER II taking class honors, followed by Paul Griffiths’s JAGERBOMB. For more Warsash Spring Series information, visit https://warsashsc.org.uk/.

Day 2 of SDYC’s Yachting Cup started with a bit of rain and overcast coastal skies. The race management team was concerned about the forecast conditions – specifically the sea state, which built as a result of an overnight offshore front. A race committee boat went out about 7:30am to check the conditions on both ocean courses; the decision was made to postpone racing by one hour, and to move both courses to more protected…